Legal Opinion
In re Quinton A.
New York Court of Appeals
Decided February 20, 1980PublishedCited by 45 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Chief Judge Cooke.
We hold that subdivision 2-a of section 753-a of the Family Court Act, which provides for mandatory restrictive placement of the State’s most violent juvenile offenders, is constitutional. However, an error in the fact-finding stage of this proceeding mandates reversal of appellant’s juvenile delinquency adjudication.
The statute under attack here provides that, where a youth between 14 and 15 years of age is found to have committed a designated felony act involving the infliction of serious physical injury upon a person who is 62 years of age or more, the…
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- Loving v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
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